Up to 32 SUV owners awoke this morning to discover that their destructive vehicles had been disabled.
Using the 'mung bean trick', whereby a mung bean is inserted into the valve of a tyre before the cap is screwed back on, tyres were let down in Marston, Headington, and the highly affluent area of Summertown. Messages were left under windscreen wipers warning the owners not to attempt to drive their 4x4s, and explaining why it was felt that direct action had to be taken to resist their assault on this planet.
They were informed that more than a quarter of the UK's CO2 generation is attributable to the transport sector, and that many Sports Utility Vehicles emit up to 300% more greenhouse gases than the average car.
They were also told that driving a car is not a 'right', and that driving an SUV is an unacceptably selfish act in the face of what may become unstoppable climate change.
This is a simple action that anyone can do, anytime or place.
They were informed that more than a quarter of the UK's CO2 generation is attributable to the transport sector, and that many Sports Utility Vehicles emit up to 300% more greenhouse gases than the average car.
They were also told that driving a car is not a 'right', and that driving an SUV is an unacceptably selfish act in the face of what may become unstoppable climate change.
This is a simple action that anyone can do, anytime or place.
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GO GO GO or NO as it may seem
18.07.2008 12:06
Ronald
Resistance to ecological suicide is contagious
18.07.2008 12:17
Indians of the Concrete Jungle
4x4 co2
18.07.2008 12:22
Davey
i forgot
18.07.2008 12:29
Davey
Re: Davey
18.07.2008 14:02
Why? There aren't enough resources for a car per person, or even between two. With the speed of capitalism in other countries surely it should be obvious that our dependency on motorised vehicles is killing our planet, not just by its hazardous production?
Do it really need to discuss why a vehicle that produces far more CO2 is suicidal for our planet/environment? Surely it should be blatantly obvious.
ECO-DEFENSE = SELF-DEFENSE
sensible eco-vegan
Way to score an own goal...
18.07.2008 14:15
pollution by flattening car tyres? What a braindead thing to
do. So not only are there now going to be up to 128 tyres which will
needlessly need to be replaced and added to the scrap tyre mountain,
there's all the needless pollution caused from recovering and
transporting these vehicles.
Way to score an own goal, dumbasses.
Conor Turton
e-mail:
conor_turton@hotmail.com
horses
18.07.2008 15:33
Davey
Not only an environmental issue
18.07.2008 15:59
It is sadly quite reflective of a lot of the drivers' attitude, powerful chunky cars regardless of cost..
Just look at the advertising of these cars and you can clearly see it is selling status and 'mastery over nature'
Not only does it cost the environment but also pedestrian and cyclists' safety.. because these cars are so chunky, even well meaning considerate drivers can end up killing people they cannot see in their wing mirrors! Drivers of these cars need to be much more aware of just what they are driving and how unnecessarily dangerous - for people not in the car! - these things are.
Little cyclist
tanks
18.07.2008 16:21
Davey
Good grief ....... are you for real.
18.07.2008 17:57
These people you have 'attacked' are presumably well off enough to have "SUV's" and thus are presumably wealthy enough to get the RAC/AA in to fix it. If it can't be fixed they'll simply replace tyres AT A HUGE COST TO THE ENVIRONMENT.
Do you REALLY think they'll read the spam on the windscreen?
Do you really think this so-called "action" will have any beneficial effect to your cause at all?
You seem to live in cloud cuckoo land if you think that you causing people some inconvenience will turn them round to your way of thinking.
Please, if you're going to take any action THINK IT THROUGH.
Attack the corporations, attack the government, but for god's sake don't attack the very people who you want to listen to you.
I think Conor has hit it on the head, you've scored a spectaculear own goal and shot yourself in the foot all at once with this type of publicity stunt.
Paul
Re: Paul
18.07.2008 18:32
Ask the Nazi Resistance why they sabotaged or even completely destroyed gas chambers, sometimes torching them causing minor environmental damage...
To save their own lives - SIMPLE!
elf
It all adds up
18.07.2008 19:50
These kinds of actions are powerful because they highlight the importance of this issue to the public; if people are prepared to risk arrest to make this point, then it drives home the seriousness of the message in a way that few other things can. This action will have far more of an effect on the people who hear or read about it (
One Wheel Driver
Oh Dear
18.07.2008 20:26
The pro 4x4ers seem to miss the point that they do not have a right to whoosh around in any internal combustion powered vehicle, they probably do not realise that those of us with a driving license, who choose to cycle, face the same penalties as if we were driving a vehicle.
These 4x4s' must be remarkably robust if a flat tire or two (or four) requires all four wheels being changed and why are they going to landfill? There are plenty of products out there made from recycled tires. It is also common for vehicle pilots to scream of their carbon neutrality, with great smugness. It is the old Roman Catholic buying indulgences re-visited, the corporations have you hood winked and you keep on paying 'em
Here, in SE London, it is a usual sight to see vehicles blocking pedestrian crossings, in front of the ASL and ignoring the lights.
Has this all been prompted by the main stream medias' outpourings over one cyclist killing a pedestrian? Big story everywhere. Seen as many the vehicle drivers who slaughter everyday? Of course cyclists do kill people from time-to-time, last one I can find was in Australia in 2001
*NB*
Tip for the stock market
Buy, buy, buy mung beans
PRoS II
Motorists are selfish
19.07.2008 09:29
Motorists are selfish, they take more space than is required for them to travel causing congestion, they use more fuel than is required causing pollution and depleting a fixed and sparse resource and they complain that speed cameras are unfair while killing many more people than terrorism.
This action should target all cars, we should all be taking part.
a cyclist
Makes me laugh!
23.07.2008 10:21
This made my day; every single thing about it. Pure comedy - cheers!
Abdul Alhazred
stupidity
23.07.2008 10:53
The worse thing is the lack of consideration and the charcterising of all drivers of these vehicles. I work with people with learning difficulties and I am sure they wouldn't have appreciated the antics of middle class lifestyle greens or anarchists or whatever in stopping them from partcipating in their daily activities
But anyway, congratulations on this childish, immature approach. Next time, why not involve workers and ordinary people in your elitist campaings. Otherwise you may find the mung bean ends up where the sun don't shine!
angry worker
e-mail:
bongihead@hotmail.co.uk
Mung bean guerillas
23.07.2008 22:21
Charles Dexter Ward
e-mail:
c_dex_ward@yahoo.co.uk
yup
23.07.2008 22:22
Motorists are selfish, they take more space than is required for them to travel causing congestion, they use more fuel than is required causing pollution and depleting a fixed and sparse resource and they complain that speed cameras are unfair while killing many more people than terrorism.
This action should target all cars, we should all be taking part.
a cyclist"
1. you have never been out of the city then?
2. whilst you don't drive, you have never been in a car?
3.you have never been in a car on a long journey?
I too am 33, and plan to learn to drive to be able to be able to travel this country and beyond, having been brought up in a single parent family on the breadline, and having worked for a pittance all my life, I now am earning the money to be able to follow my dream. God what a selfish bastard I am, please put a mung bean in my tire.
worker